Prog Recommendations Please
TheKindCromang
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Hello Strutteurs. Really into these bands/albums right now:
Yes - Fragile
Genesis - Foxtrot
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Gentle Giant - Glass House
I know these are all pretty surface. What other bands/albums would you recommend along these lines?
Thanks in advance!
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Yes - Fragile
Genesis - Foxtrot
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Gentle Giant - Glass House
I know these are all pretty surface. What other bands/albums would you recommend along these lines?
Thanks in advance!
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Also recommend
Aphrodities Child - 666 (Vangelis/Roussos)
You should probably check out Mars Volta on a new prog buzz
i'd go with earlier GG if anything.
yeah, this
well it is progressive
SS given
the gatefold is amazing!
It's one of my all-time favorites, but is it really prog? It's a hard one to pin down and you'll see descriptions calling it "progressive folk-rock psych" and so on.
I ride.
I just discovered them this weekend. I found and bought the Italian only remastered CD ('94), but this has been getting a lot of play in my car since then.
What is this?
It's another album by Il Balletto di Bronzo. I posted pics of their two classics.
Gong= Angel's Egg, Magick Brother, & You
Tangerine Dream= Rubycon
Hawkwind= Warrior on the Edge of Time & Space Ritual
Caravan= In the Land of Grey and Pink & If I Could Do It All Over Again...
The Soft Machine= [the first four albums, III being their best]
Goblin= pretty much anything... Mostly, earlier is better.
If you're into Yes, might as well check out Relayer. Patrick Moraz replaces Wakeman; totally overlooked.
and, Andy Votel has a Prog Is Not a Four Letter Word comp... That's a great place to start, especially for international gems.
Red by King Crimson - closer to metal than prog at times, but all the better for it, in my opinion. Starless is amazing.
Music In A Doll's House by Family - supremely underrated British band.
Gentle Giant - Octopus is the best GG i reckon, Caravan - in the land of the pink and grey is the best of theres (both already mentioned.)
the canterbury scene is worth investigating, so I'll throw this up.
I'm no Italian prog expert, but alongside l Balletto di Bronzo -- Ys I would recommend Museo Rosenbach -- Zarathustra:
...and most early 70s Franco Battiato such as
When you remove Rick Wakeman from the mix and add in Patrick Moraz, you get a Yes more on the cosmic/mind-bending and less on the neo-classical wanking. Easily my favorite Yes record. So many dense layers on this one. The part on Gates of Delirium, where they come crashing into the end of the ???battle??? section???Chris Squire settles into his funkiest distorted Rick bassline (in 11/8!!) while Moraz plays the melody on the Moog a few times and then Steve Howe takes it over on lap steel through an echoplex???EPIC MINDMELT
Speaking of Yes solo joints, Alan White's Ramshackle album has some nice funky moments, and a track from Steve Howe's Beginnings came up on shuffle the other day that I briefly mistook for Fleet Foxes...
Artcane "Odysee" is one of my favorites.
PFM "Photos of Ghosts" is real nice.
Libra S/T on Motown is a weird and cheap one that is up and down as most prog LPs are.
October S/T is a great privately pressed American prog LP, though tough to track down.
That Osanna LP is amazing prog.
All the Le Orme shit I've heard is top notch. As well as Sensations Fix.